Every 1st party option makes a new SKU, and they grow factorially. This causes lots of complications for production that make it incredibly expensive. Which is why you only see order selection like this on supercars. Low production count super expensive.

The key is that cars today are so complicated and expensive to produce. The laws force manufacturers to have all the modern saftey systems and pollution controls. The options are the only place the manufacturers make real money. Also why you see 80k versions of 50k cars.

Its ugly, but you can ger bmw i3’s for less than 5K. If you just want a people mover…

Apples and Oranges my firend.

You can also buy used ev’s for less than $6k.

The arguement wasnt about price, its about what is a better vehicle for the average driver.

I love cars, and im mourning the death of the manual transmission. But i bought an EV for my daily. Its just a better daily use car. Less maintenance, lots of convenience, no extra cost in gass prices and technically faster than my toy car. It doesnt give me the driving experience i want, but grabbing takeout, or sitting in traffic, its just better.

The key tonthe article isnt that it got through, ita that the thing that got through is cheap and mass producable. The modern drone battlefield has changed the landscape of war.

Yes, this is why the future is scary. In the past, no matter how much wealth or power you had, it was implemented through people. Your army, tax collectors etc. Those people understand the system and could overthrow the current system.

In the future, its algorithms and robots that are the source of the power. The robots and algorithms wont overthrow their masters. (And if they do, its probably the end of humanity altogether). And with the level of surveillance, any human that even thinks about revolution can be instantly discovered and dealt with immediately.

Also worth noting that this has happened throughout history many times.

What is new is the power a small group of people can truly have due to technology. The algorithms of social media and ai can now push the general populations opinions. Not unlike the propaganda of the past, but much stronger and more subtle. The surveillance of every citizen can be used to squeeze and silence the population on an individual level.

Throughout history, the level of wealth inequality and corruption we currently see often causes a revolt, usually followed by a dictator. But this may be the 1st time in human history that the technology enables a small group of people to prevent revolution essentially forever.

https://youtu.be/srtTmZtbJg0

I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.

The problem isnt co pilot. Its co pilot being rammed in incredibly stupid ways into every possible product.

More importantly, its cramming it in everywhere when basis windows 11 sucks. Explorer sucks, search sucks, performance sucks, Updates suck.

Satan cant be billions of years old if the universe os less than10,000 years. Latin or something similar was around when Christianity was invented, so it makes sense god and satan would speak it?

Greek democracy was chosen at random through a lottery. It was extremely successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzbJacGGt1o&t=1270s

You cant take the sky from me.

And the title of Caesar more rightfully translated would be “God King”. It implied divinity and super human levels of being.

God being a roman god, not the christian god. So not omnipotent, omnipresent, or omniscient. But still divine.

Good or evil in this case doesnt really matter. The key was consistency. America had been a world stabilizer for almost 100 years(even if the world stabilization was achived by destabilizing other nations). The world relied on that concept for global trade and the markets that brought with it.

That illusion is now shattered. The world knows its always a 4 year election cycle away from complete chaos. The trust to be earned back will take as long as it takes for humanity to forget. And it would also require us to be stable for that ammount of time. This means a minimum of the lifetimes of the people currently alive and possibly never.

But i am betting it never recovers to the same degree. America isnt the same power today as it was when it gained its place in the world. And China / europe are more powerful now than they were in the 50’s. We are no longer a world leader in education, manufacturing etc. Its possible we could speed up the recovery with some political changes to the system, but i dont have much hope for it. It would require the people in power doing things agaisnt their own interests.

Had to scroll too far to find this one.

The 2nd one is better in some minor ways, but the OG is a classic

Im in firmware. IDEs change often depending on the chip i am working with. In some cases, the tools are better on windows, or have been in the past. It has gotten alot better recently.

I dont mind windows personally(from a usability standpoint, the spyware aspect worries me). And WSL has not caused me any issues in my dev environment.

This isnt a windows issue, its a company policy issue. If developers dont have full admin rights on their systems, its a failure of managment. If you cant trust your developers enough to give them admin rights, thats not a co worker i want to be around.

This sounds more like IT babysitting.

If IT cant trust software engineers to have full admin rights on a work computer, either the calibur of your co workers is so bad that no one should want to work there, or the IT department has such a god complex, no one should want to work there.

WSL has worked fine for me for the past 4 years.